Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-11-10

STATE NEWS.

l6he0 at Cnanute, WIN cdPi'ai SWIM
of $4,000.
The state Y. NJ. G. A. convention at
Wichita Saturday raised SO, 600 for
state work.
A militia company was organized at
Parsons lart Friday with an enlistment
of forty-e
The Fort Scott Monitor is out In
new dress, very becoming and a sure
sign of prosperity.
Kansas has fifteen women journalists.
That is fairly good record for
woman suffrage state.
The attempt of forger to secure
100000 from Clay Center bank was
neatly frustrated one day last week.
Jail breaking has become quite the
rage in Winfield. The latest report is
of the escape of four men last week.
Great Bend having withstood the
recent visitation of dog fanciers now
desires to reorganize her brass band.
The Thomas county Cat reports an
excellent speech delivered by Senator
Plumb at Colby last Friday night.
Personal abuse is the campaign ina
terial of many party organs in the state.
It is a poor party that can find no bet
ter ammunition.
The sugar mill at Fort Scott is re-
ported to have exhausted all the cane
supply of that portion of the state, and
closed down for the winter.
Paola has secured windmill and
pump facory and wants sugar fac
tary and smelling works, the last to be
imported from Denver
Judge E. S. Terrence, who recently
resigned the judgeship of Winfield dis
trict, has gone to California, where he
will make his home.
The Little Jim gold and silver min
ing company has been Incorporated by
the secretary of state. The capital of
this company is 81, 800, 900.
Onaga Democrat: Herr Most says he
expects to be arrested at any hour. 1t
is great oversight on his part that he
does not also expect to be hung.
A man who stole four horses in Hi
nois has been acquitted on the ground
of insanity. This decision makes more
asylums crying necessity in Missouri.
The Amazon irrigating canal which
will run through southwestern Kansas
is now pretty certain to be ''go. y
Millionaire A. Z. Soule has the project
in charge.
When the improvements at Fort
Riley that are now being made will
have been completed, Fort Riley will
have the largest cavalry training school
in the United States.
w. S. Basom, of Clark county, is
one of the heirs to fortune of $780,
600 recently left by relative in Mich
igan. He has gone after his money
and will return to his home in Clark
county.
A county seat fight is at its warmest
in Sherman county. The average Kan
san can readily imagine the contents of
the papers Of that county, which are
published in rival towns. There are
five Of these organs
Several Kansas papers are calling at
tention to the fact that Napoleon Bona
parte sold the land included in the pres
ent state limits for one quarter of the
amount which would now be required to
pay interest on what the state is worth.
A cordial reception and pleasant en-
tertainment was given last Sunday
evening to the Nortonville band by Mr..
and Mrs. Brown, of the Commercial
hotel at Nortonville, and Mr.. and Mrs.
James Power, of Central, ILL.,, in honor
of whom serenade was given by the
band.
A beautiful girl babe was left on
the door step of DIR. kazel, of Clay
Center, by unknown parties. 1t was
adopted by Del Valentine and will have
good home. Legal steps were taken
to prevent its unnatural parents from
ever disturbing it.
Mrs. Van Cleve, wife of the man
murdered in Winfield last spring, has
been arrested and is now in that city.
Other arrests will follow, and The Win
field papers intimate that several fami-
lies of that city will be broken up by
the revelations to be made.
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